Have you ever doubted God’s personal involvement in the creation of each new human being? I have. I used to wonder, Is it just biological laws that God has set in motion that account for the conception and development of babies?
But one day it dawned on me: Biology never creates a soul. Only God has that ability. He cares enough to make an eternal, unique soul for each person. He cares enough to create an eternal, unique body for each of His children at the final resurrection.
Would it not then follow that He cares enough to be intimately involved in all aspects of a person’s conception and prenatal development? Job speaks of this, “Did not He who made me in the womb make him [referring to his male slave], and the same one fashion us in the womb?” (31:15). Note here especially that it wasn’t some great, special Biblical character Job was talking about God fashioning in the womb (like Paul or John the Baptist)–it was himself and an ordinary, unnamed servant. What David wrote applies to us all: “You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb” (Ps. 139:13).
A midwife once was speaking, and she said that as parents we should pray about the egg and sperm that meet. That’s amazing to consider! Millions of eggs are in a woman’s ovaries. And millions of sperm are released from her husband. Phenomenal, that of all the billions of possible combinations, God plans exactly which egg and sperm will meet to create the person He wants to build!
That last thought is just amazing and wonderful to be assured of!